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Updated March 24, 2000 1:45 a.m. ET

RIDING THE BULLET

By Stephen King (Scribner/Philtrum, 67 pages, Free)

A student at the University of Maine hitchhikes home to visit his mother in the hospital. He gets his first ride from a creepy old man, his second from -- a ghost. Eventually he gets to the hospital, sees his mother and by the time the 16,000-word novella is done,...